LABOUR AND EDUCATION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1307, 9 December 1911, Page 9

LABOUR AND EDUCATION.

SPEECH Bi' BISHOP GORE.

| The Workers' Educational Association I opened , their annual meetings in JJan- [ Chester on October 20 with a demonstration in the Free Trade Ha!!. The occasion witnessed nerhans tho most representative gathering of educationists and workers that has met in this country Dr. Gore, making his first public speech as Bishop of Oxford, moved a resolution expressing confidence in - the unssctarian, non-party, democratic activity of the association, in which lav one of the chief hopes for the development of a national, system of education. The association—or the effort it represented—was essential if the labour movement was cither to win or to maintain that victory which he held to lx> iU Icitimatc aspiration. (Loud applause.') In the past industrial development i.abour had had a manifestly inadequate share'of the profits. (Applause.) Lalwur might win a great victory; it might effect even a great revolution, and that perhaps bv comparatively peaceful means. It nnVh't destroy the present economical basis of So F't.y-fai)plause)-but whatever it might win, it it had not within its own ranks gained knowledge, it would be trodden u "ni cr again. (Applause.) The resolution was enthusiastically carried.